A data set containing counts of the number of languages spoken in 242 countries.
Source:R/n_languages_by_country.R
n_languages_by_country.RdA long-form data set scraped from wikipedia containing an approximate number of languages spoken in 242 countries. The data set also contains data on immigrant languages. The table was scraped from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_languages_by_country
Format
A data frame with 242 rows and 9 columns:
- rank
A numeric ranking based on number of languages spoken (lower rank = more languages)
- country
Name of the country
- nol_established
Number of established (i.e., non-immigrant) languages
- nol_immigrant
Number of immigrant languages
- nol_total
Total count of languages spoken
- nol_percent
Percentage of total number of languages relative to the world, including both established and immigrant languages
- nos_total
Number of total speakers
- nos_mean
Mean number of total speakers per language
- nos_median
Median number of total speakers per language